“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. — the 'co-crucifixion' (sunestaurōthesan) means Paul's ego-centered existence has been executed; Christ's resurrection life now inhabits and animates Paul's bodily existence, a theosis-like intimacy where Christ's love ('agapē') and self-gift find their only adequate response in Paul's faith ('pistis').
Church Fathers on Galatians 2:20
“That I might live unto God, I have been crucified with Christ.” Having said, “I am dead,” lest it should be objected, how then do you live? He adds the cause of his living, and shows that when alive the Law slew him, but that when dead Christ through death restored him to life. He shows the wonder to be twofold; that by Christ both the dead was begotten into life, and that by means of death. He here means the immortal life, for this is the meaning of the words, “That I…
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